Guardian

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Bust of a Buddhist guardian figure; gilt bronze. Fierce, armored guardian figures were placed at the entrances Buddhist temples in a protective capacity. This figure may be one of the Four Guardian Kings (Lokapala). Many of them, like this one, were much larger than life-size. In addition to bronze, iron was a favorite material. From the Yuan Dynasty, 14th century CE.
On display at the British Museum in London.

This photo was taken by a Kowa Super 66 medium format film camera with a KOWA 1:3.5/55 lens and Kowa L39•3C(UV) ø67 filter using CineStill 800T film, the negative scanned by an Epson Perfection V600 and digitally rendered with Photoshop.